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Astrology, tarot, palm readings and portraits worked out from where the planets actually are and what you actually answer, not from a paragraph written last month for everybody who shares your star sign.

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Dream Reading

Tell it what you dreamt, then choose whose tradition reads it: Thai, Chinese, Islamic or Hindu. Four of the oldest systems for reading a dream, and four different answers to the same night.

How it works

A reading of your own in four steps, and most of them are one answer.

1. ChoosePick a reading. Ten of them run all the way through for nothing.
2. Add detailsA birth date, a question, or a photograph of your hand. Never an account.
3. Get your readingComputed in this page, in a few seconds, from the real sky.
4. Come backThe sky moves. Most of these say something different tomorrow.

Real insights, for a more meaningful you

Ancient wisdom for modern life.

HalfKnown works the old methods properly: the actual positions of the planets at the minute you were born, the cards you actually drew, the creases actually on your hand. Nothing is a prediction, and every page says so.

Start your journey

Find out what today actually says.

Your horoscope for today, worked out from where the planets are this minute. Free, no account, about a minute.

Open beta. Every reading is free while the site is new, including the ones that will be paid later. Nothing here asks for a card.

Your Chinese animal set against the animal ruling the current year, counted from the lunar new year.

What the yearly forecasts are actually built on

Every Chinese yearly forecast you have read is working from one relationship: the animal of the year you were born against the animal ruling the year now running. The twelve animals sit in a circle, and the distance between your animal and this year's animal is what the forecast is describing.

Four apart is the comfortable relation. Six apart, directly opposite, is the year traditionally considered the hard one, your ben ming nian, which comes round every twelve years and is the one people wear red for.

Why so many people are given the wrong animal

The Chinese year does not start on the first of January. It starts at the lunar new year, which falls somewhere between the twenty first of January and the twentieth of February depending on the year.

That means anybody born in that window is routinely assigned the wrong animal by tables keyed to the calendar year, which is most of the ones online. This works from the actual lunar new year dates, so it is right in January.

What you get

Your animal, the animal of the current year, the relation between them, and what that relation is traditionally taken to mean for the twelve months.

It needs your birth date and nothing else. No time, no place, no account, and it is free.

Questions

I was born in early February. Which animal am I?
It depends on the exact date of the lunar new year in your birth year, which moves. If you were born before it you belong to the previous animal. This checks the real date rather than assuming January.
What are the trine groups?
The animals four apart form groups of three that are said to work easily together. Rat, Dragon and Monkey. Ox, Snake and Rooster. Tiger, Horse and Dog. Rabbit, Goat and Pig.
Is my own year really unlucky?
It is traditionally considered the year to be careful rather than bold. Treat it as folklore that a very large number of people take seriously, which in a few parts of the world makes it worth knowing either way.
Does the element matter too?
Yes, in the full system. Each animal pairs with one of five elements on a sixty year cycle, so the Fire Horse and the Water Horse are not read the same way.

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